CCFD - Terre Solidaire

Introduction

CCFD-Terre Solidaire (Comité catholique contre la faim et pour le développement-Terre Solidaire) is an association of 29 secular and religious movements that supports more than 753 projects in 63 countries in collaboration with local partners.

Profile

Country/Territory

France

Activity

CCFD promotes a one-sided Palestinian narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In 2013, CCFD hosted an “immersive tour to Palestine” and a corresponding conference. The conference justified Palestinian violence against Israelis, referring to how Palestinians “resist, […] also taking up arms, driven by despair to their hopeless situation.”

Journalist and CCFD employee Anne Isabelle Barthélémy’s book, titled “The Challenge of Peace: In the Name of their Faith, Christians Engage in More Justice in Palestine and in Israel,” accuses Israel of “apartheid.” The book was published by CCFD, le Secours catholique, Pax Christi, and Justice and Peace.

Supports the “Made it Illegality” campaign, which supports BDS aims. The campaign’s goals are “prohibiting the import of settlement products,” “excluding the settlements from their bilateral agreements and cooperation with Israel,” and “excluding companies which are active or located in the settlements from public markets and public procurement procedures…”

In August 2014, CCFD published an appeal for the EU and their member states to divest from all settlements activities. In July 2014, CCFD and FIDH published a document titled “European Measures against Israeli Occupation,” calling for settlement product labeling and divestment from business and other activities with Israeli entities beyond the 1949 Armistice Line. The document also urges the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to endorse calls for divestment from settlement activities.

Judeh Deeb Ibrahim Jamal, ACAD’s former Board of Directors’ Chairman and, simultaneously, General Director of Qatar Charity was convicted in 2015 for his activity in the Qatar Charity – an illegal organization in Israel due to its ties to Hamas – and for his transferring of funds to the Hamas (on file). Jamal was also the founder of the politicized Palestinian organization Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC).

Muhsen Abu Ramdan, ACAD’s Gaza Branch Manager, is the former director of PNGO in Gaza. In an article published on the website of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), an “affiliate” of the the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, Abu Ramdan is described as being “an active member of the national campaign to boycott Israeli products” that “called for an escalation of the campaign to boycott Israel, withdraw investments and impose sanctions on it as a mean of resistance…”

In November 2016, CCFD, together with Mouvement pour une Alternative Non- violente (MAN) and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Foundation, funded Israeli NGO De-Colonizer’s creating a map depicting “Colonialism in Destru(A)ction,” aiming “to show the historical continuum of the ongoing colonial project until today, and gives an indication on what might be the future if there is no political international substantial mobilization to stop Israel.”

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